{"id":2030,"date":"2026-03-26T00:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:18:48","slug":"para-alem-do-eurocentrismo-na-arte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/para-alem-do-eurocentrismo-na-arte\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Eurocentrism in art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2030\" class=\"elementor elementor-2030\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39b6c764 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"39b6c764\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9617e4d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9617e4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most interesting thing about encountering a book on African art is trying to escape Eurocentrism. Instead of only following what is consumed in major centers, curiosity turns to what is being produced by artists.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outside of that circuit, whether they are African, Asian, Indian, South American, or Guarani.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along this path, two books made a lasting impression on me. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adinkra \u2013 Wisdom in African symbols<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This book brings together the ideograms of the Asante civilization, a people who inhabited the territory we now call Ghana. With more than 80 symbols, the book preserves and transmits aspects of the history, philosophy, and values of this rich African culture. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another example is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Artists<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, This is a comprehensive survey of over 300 contemporary artists born or based in Africa. Featuring works by names such as El Anatsui, Julie Mehretu, and Wangechi Mutu, among many others, the book showcases the power and diversity of current African art in painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By immersing myself in these works, I seek to broaden my understanding of humanity from the perspective of those who have often been marginalized \u2013 but who continue to produce profoundly symbolic, powerful, and necessary images. This opens my eyes to things I was never taught, but which should indeed become more popular, such as Leonardo da Vinci&#039;s Mona Lisa.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><strong>Sergio Kal<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O mais interessante ao se deparar com um livro de arte africana \u00e9 tentar fugir do eurocentrismo. Em vez de acompanhar apenas o que \u00e9 consumido nos grandes centros, a curiosidade se volta para o que est\u00e1 sendo produzido por artistas fora desse circuito, sejam eles africanos, asi\u00e1ticos, indianos, sulamericanos, guaranis. Nesse caminho, dois livros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapiendesign.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}